Arrived Friday evening. Bert was already here. William, Kim, Nathan, Jess, Zelda, Henry, Oliver and Wes came for the weekend. Bert and I let then have the bedrooms, and we camped out in the tent by the bonfire. Beautiful, cool night. We had a fish fry and roasted marshmallows.
- Didn't do much gardening, Zelda keeps me pretty busy making mud pies, playing in the tree house, taking rides around the property, jumping on sheet puffs, and putting on lip stick.
- Cut down my dead butterfly magnolia. I had trained some morning glories up around it, but it was leaning over from the weight which means it was literally good for nothing, so down it went.
- Watered in the Rose Garden for about two hours.
- Dug up some iris from the beds in the Circle Drive and replaced some dead iris in the Rose Garden.
- Raked pine needles and mulched a couple beds in the Rose Garden.
- Weeded everywhere.
- Cut away Hoja Santa that has spread to places I don't want it to be.
- Raked all the paths in the Star Garden. It looks much better in there.
- Watered in the Star Garden for an hour or so.
- Sprayed herbicide in the Rose Garden and the Star Garden.
- Watched the butterflies. So pretty. I saw one Monarch. The weather was so beautiful this weekend. Watching butterflies seemed like the best use of my time while I was in the garden.
- Sprayed herbicide in the Orchard.
- Weeded in the Orchard. The zinnias I have been working so hard to get going before the first freeze have finally begun to bloom - white, light pink, dark pink, coral, red, yellow, purple. Finally starting to look good down there. Never again will I thin my zinnias. I will spread the seed and let all of them grow together in a tangle. It's a prettier show.
- I raked in the Infinity Garden around the Greenhouse.
- Rested for about an hour then headed home.
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